An grownup cranium from the Charterhouse Warren mass grave within the UK, that includes lower marks and a blunt pressure fracture
Ian R. Carwright/Institute of Archaeology Oxford College
Round 4000 years in the past, a minimum of 37 males, girl and youngsters have been brutally butchered, dismembered and probably eaten by their enemies earlier than their stays have been tossed right into a 15-metre-deep cave shaft with cattle bones.
It’s the largest and most excessive episode of mass violence recognized from prehistoric Britain. The archaeologists behind the invention suppose the perpetrators did it to dehumanise, or “other”, the victims, probably as revenge to ship a political message.…
